{"id":73166,"date":"2025-07-30T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-alert-mass-evacuations-pacific-japan-guam-hawaii"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:06:21","slug":"prepared-for-a-long-stay-tsunami-alert-triggers-mass-evacuations-across-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73166","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Prepared for a long stay\u2019: tsunami alert triggers mass evacuations across Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in Guam and Japan move to higher ground, while highways in Hawaii busy as residents leave for safe areas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-alert-pacific-islands-japan-russia-magnitude-8-earthquake-follow-live-updates\">Tsunami warning live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the Pacific territory of Guam shortly before lunchtime on Tuesday, Sam Mabini\u2019s phone began to ping. A tsunami warning had been issued after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-warning-watch-alert-japan-guam-pacific-russia-earthquake\">8.8-magnitude quake<\/a> struck a remote part of the Russian coast. Authorities had put out the alert over concerns that destructive waves could slam the shoreline in the coming hours, and urged people to move away from the coast. Mabini, a former Guam senator, took action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to higher ground just in case,\u201d she said. Her family lives in the lower area of Tamuning and they moved to a more elevated part of the village. She joined other residents who evacuated to Agana Heights, a higher part of Hag\u00e5t\u00f1a, the capital of the US island in the western Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-alert-mass-evacuations-pacific-japan-guam-hawaii\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Guam and Japan move to higher ground, while highways in Hawaii busy as residents leave for safe areasTsunami warning live updatesIn the Pacific territory of Guam shortly before lunchtime on Tuesday, Sam Mabini\u2019s phone began to ping. A tsunami&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,263,1272,1456,88,874,1189,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-guam","category-hawaii","category-japan","category-pacific-islands","category-tsunamis","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73175,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73166\/revisions\/73175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}